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By: The Catholic Post - October 6, 2017 -
Movie Review
Kate Winslet and Idris Elba star in a scene from the movie "The Mountain Between Us." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service The proverbial call of the wild sounds more like a roar in this trapped-in-the-wilderness survival drama, based on Charles Martin’s 2011 novel and directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Two strangers meet at an Idaho airport, anxious after their respective flights are canceled. A photojournalist (Kate Winslet) persuades a dashing surgeon (Idris Elba) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2017 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service A deep dive into the shallow end of the melodrama pool with predictable results. An improbable plot centered on a faked death is carried as a badge of honor. The film’s moral viewpoint may be in the right place, but the plot construction from director-screenwriter Chris Stokes is too ludicrous to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2017 -
Movie Review
Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in a scene from the movie "Battle of the Sexes." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Twentieth Century Fox)
By Catholic News Service The early 1970s in all its revanchist sexism, double-knit-fabric garishness and choking cigarette smoke is the setting of the coming-of-age story for women’s tennis, as Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) takes on Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) in the famed 1973 exhibition match in Houston’s Astrodome. This lightly fictionalized version of history […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 29, 2017 -
Movie Review
Diego Luna, Ellen Page and James Norton star in a scene from the movie "Flatliners." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Interested in studying the physiology of death and the possibility of an afterlife, a medical student (Ellen Page) persuades a couple of her peers (James Norton and Kiersey Clemons) to stop her heart temporarily, then quickly revive her. When she returns with enhanced skills, others (including Nina Dobrev) decide to give […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 29, 2017 -
Movie Review
Richard T. Jones and GregAlan Williams star in a scene from the movie "A Question of Faith." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Pure Flix)
By Catholic News Service Sober religious drama in which a minister (Richard T. Jones) grapples with a tragedy involving his young son (Caleb T. Thomas) that shakes his fundamental beliefs. As he gradually discovers that the mishap has linked his family’s fate with those of several strangers, including a restaurant owner (Jaci Velasquez), her daughter […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 29, 2017 -
Movie Review
Tom Cruise and and Alejandro Edda star in a scene from the movie "American Made." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Wild fact-based story of a TWA pilot (Tom Cruise) recruited by a CIA operative (Domhnall Gleeson) in the early 1980s to fly guns to the U.S.-backed contra forces fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Diverted from this mission by the chance to smuggle cocaine for the leaders of the nascent Medellin […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2017 -
Movie Review
Horror flick
Alycia Debnam-Carey and Liesl Ahlers star in a scene from the movie "Friend Request." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Second-rate horror flick in which a popular college student (Alycia Debnam-Carey) briefly befriends an isolated peer (Liesl Ahlers), dumps her when she behaves too strangely, and then is shaken to hear that the young woman has killed herself. But death fails to stop the occult-loving loner: Wreaking revenge from beyond the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2017 -
Movie Review
Animated characters appear in the movie "The Lego Ninjago Movie." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service A few flashes of wit relieve the noisy tedium of this martial arts-themed animated adventure. With his home town constantly under attack by his villainous father (voice of Justin Theroux), a schoolboy (voice of Dave Franco) leads a double life by battling bad Dad, disguised as a ninja warrior. He does […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 26, 2017 -
Movie Review
Channing Tatum and Halle Berry star in a scene from the movie "Kingsman: The Golden Circle." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Director and co-writer Matthew Vaughn goes over the top with cartoonish but gruesome mayhem and a distasteful bedroom sequence in this follow-up to his 2015 feature, “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” Now an established agent of the independent espionage service from which the films derive the shared portion of their titles, the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 15, 2017 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Chaotic, exhausting, genre-blending allegory about a poet (Javier Bardem) and his wife (Jennifer Lawrence) living a solitary life in an isolated house in the countryside. As she works to rehabilitate the dwelling after a disastrous fire, and he struggles with writer’s block, a series of intruders (most significantly, Michelle Pfeiffer and […]
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